Agree, REW, painters tape, laser measuring tool, and room treatments (if able) are all wonderful tools. For some, and if their component allow, digital room correction (rather room mitigation) can be a game changer - I have my personal thoughts from experience, but I’ll just say that I prefer a more organic approach using a combination of furniture and treatments throughout the space.
I also agree that AI and ChatGPT can be useful - curious where this will go in relation to room acoustics and speaker/listener placement and whether new programs will be created; something like DIRAC + AI.
From what I’m gathering, it seems like a good portion of users are “set it and forget it” after finding ideal placement, which makes sense. I would imagine having a dedicated space would likely be a factor in this equation whereas users like myself may need to tweak and experiment with their shared living/acoustic spaces.
Not to get too far into the weeds since this is just personal experience, but I’ve found adding a second subwoofer, spacing the speakers closer together (preferred tonality), bringing the speakers further into the room, and bass traps to be the greatest impact so far for me.
And +1 tcutter